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Anticanonical models of three-dimensional algebraic varieties

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The survey reflects the present state of the biregular theory of three-dimensional algebraic varieties with negative canonical sheaf.

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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Sovremennye Problemy Matematiki, Vol. 12, pp. 59–157, 1979.

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Iskovskikh, V.A. Anticanonical models of three-dimensional algebraic varieties. J Math Sci 13, 745–814 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01084563

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